The Escort - A Feature Film About Relationships Today

THE ESCORT - A Feature Film about Love, Romance, and Relationships for Today's Generation

‘The Escort’ is a drama with a simple concept – a young man has 60 minutes to convince an escort to leave her line of work – but despite the premise of featuring only one location and two characters the story evolves into something more, examining the state of relationships today in a digitally-obsessed world where sex is easily available at our fingertips and the idea of love has been greatly distorted.

Written over the course of 6 months after interviewing both current and former escorts, the film provides both an indictment of the exploitation of women in this industry while examining the wider socio-political structure of our society which has led to a segment of women feeling they have been put in a position where they have no choice but to enter this line of work. It asks the question of whether true love can be found in a profession that sells a false version of it while opening our eyes to the destruction caused for those who sell their body and those who purchase the use of one.

Yet at its core ‘The Escort’ is a film about two deeply flawed individuals – a woman who is no damsel in distress and a young man who is no saint – drowning in pain who over the course of their journey come to realize that they may have found their saviour in each other. It is ‘Chasing Amy’ for a new generation, a film featuring two refreshingly friendly, relatable characters who engage in a frank and honest discussion about sex in a verbal battle akin to a tennis match as both try to fight for their beliefs and peel away the layers revealing who they really are.

Every generation has a film that reflects the state of relationships for themselves and for me that movie was ‘Chasing Amy’, and while we have had films both before and since from ‘Sex, Lies and Videotape’ to ‘Closer’ and ‘Shame’ no film has spoken to me more than Kevin Smith’s deeply personal story. ‘The Escort’ intends to do just that for a new generation of filmgoers as we examine the impact the social media age has played on society, relationships, and sex in general with a story that while fictional has become deeply personal as a result of the interviews held with real escorts whose stories I intend to tell.

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